After the high schoolers finished giving their statements, they should have politely taken their leave, but none of them left.
"Since we're already here." Jiang Xia looked thoughtfully at his two fellow detectives. "Why don't we go ask that blond guy about any clues?"
Hattori Heiji immediately nodded. "I was thinking the same thing."
The two quickly reached an agreement. Jiang Xia patted Hattori Heiji on the shoulder, pushed him to the front, and let him charm his way through.
After all, this was the Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters, and Hattori Heiji was a fairly well-known Kansai Detective. There really wasn't anyone here who didn't recognize him, so they made their way through without a hitch.
The group successfully reached the interrogation room.
Furthermore, considering that the blond guy might not pay any attention to a group of high schoolers who looked like tourists, Hattori Heiji casually dragged over an officer involved in this case, specifically picking one with a fierce-looking face to go in and help ask some questions.
The high schoolers secretly observed from behind.
Inside the interrogation room, the blond guy—the suspect in the bridge murder, Kiritani Teruhiko—sat behind a small table with a grim expression.
His somewhat long hair had been dyed gold and tied into a bundle behind his head. Combined with his current gloomy look, he didn't seem like a good person no matter how one looked at him.
Kiritani Teruhiko kept glancing at the door, then out the window. He looked extremely restless, practically as though he were afraid of something.
Mixed in among the students, Jiang Xia watched him curiously from a short distance away.
Now that Kiritani Teruhiko's identity as an "organization Peripheral Member" had been confirmed, Jiang Xia still couldn't sense much of the organization about him. There wasn't